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I brought a set of turboblades last weekend and when i got them home i degreased them and blasted them with the gurney they did come up pretty good but it got me thinkin about polishing them.

has anyone here done it?
how do you do it?
and what do you need?

Strip the lacquer off with....I forgot now but paint stripper should do it, then start sanding with some 400-600 and slowly move up steps till your upto about 1000-1200 grit then buff it with some metal polish (use a decent buffer) IIRC that's how a bloke from back in the day done it, he wrote up a guide and all but I lost it now.

the degreaser and the pressure from the gurney got a lot of the clear coat off i might have to goto jollys and get a shitty one and see if i can do it

Heres what i did to mine... just removed the clear coat with some paint stripper and lightly sanded and painted some of the rim a metallic grey.. i think they look alright, they are only my rear stockies anyway.

The pic is a before and after obviously

Can you do this with EB-s pack mags aswell? the ones with the 5 big spokes

revhead_88 wrote:Heres what i did to mine... just removed the clear coat with some paint stripper and lightly sanded and painted some of the rim a metallic grey.. i think they look alright, they are only my rear stockies anyway.

The pic is a before and after obviously

That looks mint mate!! Pretty much what was gona happen on the barbie car if we found a decent set of blades.

4LEDboy wrote:Can you do this with EB-s pack mags aswell? the ones with the 5 big spokes

Not sure on this one. Could work as the XR's had the same wheel just machine finish?

yeh iv been going to try on the ebs wheels.
if i get keen ill grab the spare set and give it a go on the weekend

Someone should make a tutorial about this sort of thing. Blades are the best wheel ever.

the ones i brought were all pretty good but the 5th one that was the spare is mint..not a mark on it i just need to do the same with the rest.

holmsy wrote:yeh iv been going to try on the ebs wheels.
if i get keen ill grab the spare set and give it a go on the weekend

Cool! Let us know how you go with it!
The clear coat on my set have gone to shit, bit to bisseh with the armoral!

This is what legends were made of back in the original days lol:




That's how they could turn out with some elbow grease

Thanks for the comments guys

pHaT`eL wrote:

revhead_88 wrote:Heres what i did to mine... just removed the clear coat with some paint stripper and lightly sanded and painted some of the rim a metallic grey.. i think they look alright, they are only my rear stockies anyway.

The pic is a before and after obviously

That looks mint mate!! Pretty much what was gona happen on the barbie car if we found a decent set of blades.

Yer they should look good on the barbie car.. maybe with pink paint where i painted mine grey, just try it and see

Heres some pics of the wheels during the making of them.
its quite simple to do really.
take tyres off rim
strip clearcoat off
lightly sand the bits to be painted
mask up bits to painted
paint
paint
paint
clearcoat
clearcoat
let sit over night
remove masking tape and polish up wheels face.
put tyres on and admire the bling

PICS
before

during

after clearcoat been removed

and painted

pHaT`eL wrote:

4LEDboy wrote:Can you do this with EB-s pack mags aswell? the ones with the 5 big spokes

Not sure on this one. Could work as the XR's had the same wheel just machine finish?

They will work with either spac or xr wheels. they will look different when polished as the xr wheels have metal with a clear coat and the s-pac's are painted. but either will polish up fine

Bass Crazy's car was the sickest. Long live lol.

revhead_88 wrote:

pHaT`eL wrote:

4LEDboy wrote:Can you do this with EB-s pack mags aswell? the ones with the 5 big spokes

Not sure on this one. Could work as the XR's had the same wheel just machine finish?

They will work with either spac or xr wheels. they will look different when polished as the xr wheels have metal with a clear coat and the s-pac's are painted. but either will polish up fine

Awesome, I'll have a go at it If it doesn't work I'll blame you

Sundeep wrote:Bass Crazy's car was the sickest. Long live lol.

+1, thats the car that makes me want polished blades on Beths car

Rmyers polished his up back in the day. Made his daily ED look mint as!!

SnyperEB wrote:Rmyers polished his up back in the day. Made his daily ED look mint as!!

He didn't polish his, he bought them off me, who bought them off Sam A.K.A SB3 who used to have them on a mint white EA at about the same time that Bass Crazy was around...

until Steve damaged one of the tyres at glenmaggie :/

needfordspeed wrote:

That's fkn hot. I remember seeing this pic a couple of years ago.

I polished some up. Prick of a job to do but look good when they are done properly.

speed.freak wrote:Blades are the best wheel ever.

+1


Oh and that silver EB should = pic of the week.





About time for a new one too...

man polished turboblades look tuff as

Ok now you've made me appreciate my old blades stored in the shed after seeing those pics. They look great especially painting the white to colour of choice, awesome job!

Got me wondering now

TriymeD wrote:Ok now you've made me appreciate my old blades stored in the shed after seeing those pics. They look great especially painting the white to colour of choice, awesome job!

Got me wondering now

Same here!

Gee they came up great, good work. The little bit of grey really makes a difference, but if you didn't know then you probably wouldn't spot it at first glance. I like it.

I cleaned mine up on my daily EA a while ago.... Just painted the white part in black too.... Looked sweet

Am trying to do this to a spare rocker cover, will let you know how it turns out..

Rocker covers take a long time to get right due to all of the little places you can't quiet get sandpaper/wet'n dry paper into. Best of luck with it but you'll take atleast 6 hours to be mirror like.

yeah wither that or when i get sick of it, chrome spraypaint

so if i understand correctly polishing these wheels is a matter of stripping the clear coat and going nuts with some polish?
would they benefit from a fine wet sand?

misk wrote:so if i understand correctly polishing these wheels is a matter of stripping the clear coat and going nuts with some polish?
would they benefit from a fine wet sand?

take clear coat off, then start from coarse sand paper and work your way down from say 200 through to 1200 grit...when you get to around 800 grit, wet it with warm water and sand. Water stops finer scratch marks from showing when fully polished up. Then when you think its smooth enough, use a metal polish and buff it it in. Just need elbow grease if doing by hand, make sure every time you go finer in grit that you spend time getting the previous sandpaper scratches out so it comes out good. More time you put in, the shinier it will come out. Its all in the sandpaper work. just takes up time....

party!

**** i wanna do it to my blades, but knowing my luck ill **** it up

i went to get a set done buy a shop and they wante 200$ a rim he said the clear is a C*&#@ i asked him if you can do it with paint stripper and he lol.

any one want to do a set of 5 for me ?

They look really good.
Pity that i never had any of these

Back in the day i had my xf snowflakes done and they came up very similar to these . Look good

Gonna do this to a machined look XR6 rim right now, will get some before and after pics for you viewers out their.

serial_fool wrote:Gonna do this to a machined look XR6 rim right now, will get some before and after pics for you viewers out their.

How'd you go with it all??